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booklife prize 2018 critic's report The novel's literary style is creative, informative, and at times offbeat, with instances of breaking the fourth wall ... The breadth of knowledge and content Man integrates into the narrative (art history, world geography, mythology, and literature) is ambitious and often captivating. This genre-spanning novel is rich, profound, and--for some readers--potentially overwhelming ... The author's care in crafting the plot and character dynamics--and the juxtaposing of the ancient and the futuristic--are apparent throughout the work ... Shifts and transitions between time periods can be blurred, but the meaningful connections Man draws between the various characters' histories and global events are both enjoyable and educational. (Booklife is a division of Publishers Weekly)

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Brought up in Hong Kong, at the Kowloon peninsula, the Land of Nine Dragons, and educated by a prestigious all-boys Catholic school (La Salle), the author muddled through university in Canada (McMaster), and inadvertently stumbled into the television business. He became a pioneer of Chinese language television in Canada, which means that he gave up living like a normal human being for over a decade. Circumstances took him to China during Chinese New Year of 1981, at a time when China was still pristine and penurious, but full of innocence. Return visits in 1983 and 1985 to diiferent parts of China gave the author deeper understanding of the mysterious Kingdom of the Orient. The author was in Hong Kong during 1997 around the time of the handover of the British colony back to the government of the People's Republic of China. That historic day spelled the end of the British Empire. The author decided to stay and witness first hand the Rise of the Dragon. https: //heart-of-the-dragon.weebly.com

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